on exhibition. From $5 each party, and the all-seeing eyes of a white|hanzing pictures he would think about] rocks to cover you. room may at times make you long for the|them in a very different way from the owner. Often the owner's interest is not even sentimental. He hangs pictures because they are available and have cost some Tints and Textures money. The architect thinks about them in relation to other pictures, and to the walls Regard, then, your carpet carefully and on which they are hung. if it possesses several colours take out of There really can be no quarrel with the it the one that pleases you most and sweep hanging of pictures that produce pleasure it over the whole room, including the ceil-|to their owner either because they have ing—though here a lighter tone of your|sentimental value or because they are shade is better. Green as a colour is sóme- genuinely appreciated as works of art, thing to go carefully with—there is so much provided they are so hung that they enhance that doesn't agree with it—but blues, greys: the hetic effect of the room as a whole, mauves, pinks, beiges, are kindly an rather than detract from it And it may accept most that is offered to them, a even be dessil ble to hang pictures which nothing "pretty-pretty"
the colour is chosen cleverly the have in themselves no particular aesthetic about it.
It is a] or artistic appeal, purely because they are comfort and delight to be able to offer good decorative spots. cushion which specially pleases you without "n srt: and out of practically room flowers of all types and colours or al"
v) " asi " yi picture hanging is, therefor in a sense. pictur, having to consult its wishes too much. Strong any such miscellaneous collection of pictures as are colours, unless you are sure of being able owned by the average family to change them when you get tired, are to select all the pictures whi one best left alone. They are like people of "decided" character—difficult to live with. ang them in such a way that art of the architectural Texture of materials is another thing eR Uf thir ace which can make or mar your peace. For chair coverings is best—something which qualities Wearing well a rough broken surface in selection are, firs will receive the buffets of misfortune with eco! T colour; third; equanimity and won't crease. Anything too! to "tua bad y appro sleek or fine will show every mark and) '©, the: background. It is probable that s s particular space in all four of these respects IW DA A evens. nobody will own the perfect picture for a the kind of household that you a and, the afore, it will be necessary to bal-there is only one "parlour," as our great-opera would nite zaria n don't that one of severa lance one factor against another, to select lable pictures which tri ea Mag Pug n Bec nearly approaches the optimum. 5 enters it in "comfortable" clothes. and you yourself don't always want to be on the Cocktail Cabinet tips of at in this case is what is generally re- moy or may narile your toes sartorially. What to aim heres: a clitia Nt otto Dit gf fun which vou cognized to be a "nice English room" with wants a cocktail cabinet?
The cleverest washable cretonne covers and curtains and and most surprising one w of flowers about. There is something smallish but deep cupboard, fairly high very peaceful about this type of room and from the ground. tucked half into the ie: Retired off corner of an old-fashioned room near the deeply embrasured door. It contained two deep, oddly shaped shelves and had two Some Colour Schemes doors, one opening inside and the other outside of the room. Deciding to use it a Here colour-is a pleasantly intricate modest cocktail cabinet, here is how scheme for a dining-room cum. drawing enterprising woman of the house treat room with a dividing curtain between this cupboard. First she had an electric Colours point put in its ceiling, with a switch on sets the outside of the wall. Then she pinned—beige, with those all-colour variegated fixing it closely and unframed. Further, she alls and ceiling—pinkish mauve: carpets up a strip of mirror on one of its sides, bouquets in the corners; window curtains had mirror glass cut to fit the principal and blinds—white; dividing curtain—yellow: shelf. upholster y, mauve, brown.
Lastly, for an original shade for the And here is a colour scheme for a bed-electric lamp she followed the amusing room American fashion of using a common round Walls and ceiling—grey-blue; carpet—cheese grater of bright tin. Such graters, sand and blue; curtains—white, green, blue as you know, have, small holes pierced in and apricot; upholstery—apricot, beige: one side, and large ones in the other, with web Mur dono ace sere tain. accommodate an electric bulb. The small bedspreads—blue and white.
ly right a small curved handle across one end, the ut other being a hollow: round of the size to towels, table cloths and table napkins, dress Pandile had been removed (though this is süést pow. be Never was colour so good in the less expensive materials s it is now, and one can it is perhaps neater) and the ed to the electric cord with liver When the cupboard 3 1
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